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Abstract Structural evolution of odd-even and odd-odd Mn isotopes from the valley of stability up to neutron dripline is studied in the framework of the self-consistent mean-field theory of Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov. Three Skyrme effective interactions, namely, SLy4, SLy5 and SLy5T, are employed to investigate the tensor force effect on the ground-state properties. It is shown that the calculated quantities with the SLy4 interaction correctly reproduce the available experimental data and agree well with finite range droplet model and relativistic mean-field predictions. An inconsistency has been observed between the curves of the separation energies and that of the charge radius around N = 40. It is explained by the flatness of the potential energy curves in this region. The SLy5 and SLy5T results point to the necessity to refit all the Skyrme parameters after including the tensor terms.